[brd529]

Most looker instances I’ve seen are wired to redshift. How long until support for non google cloud databases is dropped, deprioritized, etc?

[brd529]

The looker blog post addresses this though the google one doesn’t:

> For customers and partners, it’s important to know that today’s announcement solidifies ours as well as Google Cloud’s commitment to multi-cloud. Looker customers can expect continuing support of all cloud databases like Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata and more.

Time will tell - but I suspect we’ll see new features will be “bigquery first”

[Lightbody]

Look to Stackdriver for guidance: it originally supported AWS and they haven’t removed it in the years since acquisition. I think it’s safe to assume Looker will support many non-GCP datasources for a very long time.

[Donald]

Maybe this behavior will change under the scrutiny of anti-trust investigations.

[reilly3000]

I think that Google would love to know what Redshift usage looks like in an aggregated view. It also provides another hook for them into Google Cloud.